By; Joyce Johnson
Poem Analysis :
As I began to Read the poem , my thought was a very innocent concept introduced in the first stanza. babies to me signify new life , bubbles to me signify freedom because they can float away freely without any barriers .The beginning lines to the first stanza described it as a childhood and the second stanza continued to adulthood. Every line helps the poem escalates into the different stages of being born and then death .
Literary Devices :
Consonance was involved in this poem . Consonance you may ask ? Consonance ; The recurrence of similar sounds, esp. consonants. In this poem the literary device is used at the end of every second line in each stanza.Such as the words bubbles and troubles ending with the -les sound . Another example of the Consonance is perplexing and vexing ending with the sound -ing. Last but not least the final example i have of this literary device in this poem is diseases and pleases ending with the -ses sound . All together the poem contains four examples of the literary device.